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Welcome to syntax in this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking about hierarchical skills for 2021. These are the things you want to make sure that you have in your tool box

Tool belt. Where else can you keep skills? I don't know you can keep them in the drawer. You can keep them on your desk if you'd like on the blockchain. Oh yeah on the blockchain very

Very relevant. My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a full stack developer from Denver Colorado and with me as always is West Bowes from Toronto

Hamilton, Ontario. Sorry, not Toronto. No, not from Toronto. That's offensive. Yeah, is it offensive? I wondered about that. No, do you have like an us first that mentality with the Torontonians? Not really because I actually have lived in Toronto longer than I lived in Hamilton. So I still consider myself a bit of a Torontonian. So that that's okay. Is that the actual official description, Toronto Torontonian. Torontonian. Yeah, surprised I got that right. Cool. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

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All right. So high-robial skills for 2021. This is an email I get every three minutes. Like it's your West love the podcast. What do I learned? What is it that I need to learn and even like looking at the potlock questions pretty much this is like every 10th question that we get is like.

Like just tell me what to learn so I can go ahead and get a job and I was like just like thinking about it like okay like obviously there's no there's no silver bullet here.

But if you were to come up with a list of skills that someone would need. What do you think that they are and what I've sort of stumbled upon and Scott and I've stumbled upon here is like we think that a set of good fundamentals.

A set of real world lib tools that are like modern and then a dash of soft skills are sort of like the I think the three big ones in order to look attractive to a hiring manager so we're going to go through through those three sections here and just explain what we mean by each of those so we do have lots of episodes on the fundamentals you can go back into the catalog and listen to all those episodes about what are the fundamentals of each but we're going to do a little high level here and.

Just talk about like what we think you should should be learning yeah cool so let's get into it here the first little bit I think we should just talk about maybe your code in general right like let's say a high level view of your code before you're heading into an interview or an application or somebody is going to be looking at it.

You got to think about it like this would you show up to your job interview wearing I'm trying to think of something that in 2021 would not be appropriate to a job interview.

Wayne Gretzke T shirt graphic T a graphic T yeah a graphic T of Wayne I mean you know there's a lot of goals a lot of assists in his lifetime career but that's probably not going to get you the job right.

And you have to think about the same respect like with your code would your code show up to an interview or a job application in a Wayne Gretzke T I don't think so so you're going to need to take some time and all it really takes us an hour to.

Before you submit that application or maybe even right after you submit it before anybody looks at it take some time and really take a good look at your code make sure that anything that you're presenting as part of your code portfolio is buttoned up it is got it's hair gel and or whatever it might use either way you want to add comments you want to make sure it's clean you want to use some code formatting the easiest way to do that is just run prettier yeah exactly.

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